Sollas glacier
| Sollas glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Kukri Hills and Taylor Valley , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 43 ′ S , 162 ° 36 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Bonney Lake | |
The Sollas Glacier is a glacier in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It flows from the Kukri Hills between the Marr and Hughes Glaciers to the eastern end of Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley .
The British geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880–1963), participant in the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) under the direction of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , mapped it and named the glacier after the British geologist William Johnson Sollas (1849–1936) ).
Web links
- Sollas Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sollas Glacier on geographic.org (English)